ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,603, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for a heuristic tree optimization using a prioritized dimension selection for policies with multiple given dimensions" was invented by Tianrui Wei (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shushan Wen (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide systems and methods for a heuristic policy search tree optimization using a prioritized dimension selection. A computer-implemented method for optimizing a policy search tree includes differentiating, with a network appliance, dimensions based on multiple priority levels of a p...